From owner-freebsd-advocacy Fri May 7 10:23:57 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from sumatra.americantv.com (sumatra.americantv.com [208.139.222.227]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B86DE15247 for ; Fri, 7 May 1999 10:23:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jlemon@americantv.com) Received: from right.PCS (right.PCS [148.105.10.31]) by sumatra.americantv.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id MAA15356; Fri, 7 May 1999 12:23:46 -0500 (CDT) Received: from free.pcs (free.PCS [148.105.10.51]) by right.PCS (8.6.13/8.6.4) with ESMTP id MAA18270; Fri, 7 May 1999 12:23:45 -0500 Received: (from jlemon@localhost) by free.pcs (8.8.6/8.8.5) id MAA14492; Fri, 7 May 1999 12:23:45 -0500 (CDT) Date: Fri, 7 May 1999 12:23:45 -0500 (CDT) From: Jonathan Lemon Message-Id: <199905071723.MAA14492@free.pcs> To: jgrosch@MooseRiver.com, advocacy@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [svlug] *sigh* (fwd) X-Newsgroups: local.mail.freebsd-advocacy In-Reply-To: References: Organization: Architecture and Operating System Fanatics Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In article you write: >On Fri, May 07, 1999 at 05:34:25AM -0700, Jan B. Koum wrote: >> On Thu, May 06, 1999 at 03:03:46PM -0700, "Jordan K. Hubbard" > wrote: >> > > Derek is a local PITA. Good thing he has no voice and even himself >> > > is forced to run FreeBSD on his desktop. Hehe. I love Yahoo. ;) >> > > >> > > Yes, it was my idea of going with Linux for oracle. I'd much rather >> > > see that happen, then oracle on NT. >> > >> > Erm, why didn't you point him at: >> > >> > http://www.freebsd.org.ru/linux-oracle.HOW-TO.html >> > >> > Or any of the other howtos on running Linux oracle on FreeBSD? >> > >> > - Jordan >> >> The reason we had to go with RedHat was because that is what >> Oracle will oficially support. Not Debian. Not SuSE. Not FreeBSD (the >> other Linux distribution). > >Dummy question number 4 at an Install-A-Thon, "Is this a Linux distribution" Marketing answer: "Yes, it most certainly is! In fact, it will run your Linux applications faster than RedHat! As an additional bonus, we also have an extensive collection of software called ``ports'', which is specially designed for this distribution!" -- Jonathan (now, where did I put that smiley....) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message